Best Fastest Video Joiner / Encoder

[nickthomas125]

Hello,

I am looking for some advice regarding video joining software. I am specifically after some software to join multiple video clips (50 - 100 5 minute *.avi clips) to form one video, repeating this process many times. At a later date I will be attaching a *.jpg header to the front of these videos. The videos are in *.avi format and i would like to join these and then encode them to *.mpg4 . It would be good to be able to join the videos separately (just encase I make a mistake with the order) and then encode them afterwards (time consuming part) either in the same software or difference software.

I have been using Windows Movie Maker but thought there must be something quicker out there, this is for commercial use so licencing will have to permit, cheaper is better?

Any recommendations ??

Thank you

[LMotlow]

"AVI" isn't a format. It's a container that can accept many different codecs. You haven't told us how your avi's are encoded. MPG4 is also a container.

No one in this forum would recommend Windows Movie Maker. Not if you expect good quality output.

[nickthomas125]

"AVI" isn't a format. It's a container that can accept many different codecs. You haven't told us how your avi's are encoded. MPG4 is also a container.

No one in this forum would recommend Windows Movie Maker. Not if you expect good quality output.

Sorry for the lack of information it has been a while since ive had to deal with video.

The AVI files are encoded with GMP4 - GeoVision Advanced Mpeg-4 CCTV Proprietary codec - CCTV security system
The final MPEG4 - MPEG4 Base Media V1

Is MPEG4 a container aswell as an encoder?

Hope this helps

[Baldrick]

Joining video is not so simple. Especially with strange video codecs.

So Windows Movie Maker loads those avi without problems? I guess you have installed some geovision codec?


Virtualdub might work if you have named all files like video001.avi, video002.avi, video003.avi and it should load all files directly. Then can you export to avi with microsoft mpeg4 video codec 1.

[nickthomas125]

Joining video is not so simple. Especially with strange video codecs.

So Windows Movie Maker loads those avi without problems? I guess you have installed some geovision codec?


Virtualdub might work if you have named all files like video001.avi, video002.avi, video003.avi and it should load all files directly. Then can you export to avi with mic[/URL]rosoft mpeg4 video codec 1.

Thanks for the Reply,

Yes Windows Movie Maker loads the avis with no problem, and you are right, there is a codec gmp4 http://www.moviecodec.com/download-video-codecs/geovision-cctv-mpeg4-codec-281/

The videos are dated in a yyyymmddhhmm.avi formatting, would virtual dub recognize this in a sequential manner?

Thankyou

[nickthomas125]

After alot of online research into programs that can do this I have come across mencoder and ffmpeg.

I am using mencoder to encode the .avi (GMP4) files to .mp4 (X264) videos, from there I am creating a header video file from a jpg using ffmpeg, finally I am concatenating the files using ffmpeg.

These are very powerful tool and i like having everything run from batch files.

Cheers